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1) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Rental ready.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
16 film reels of 16 on 8 (133 min., 11,970 ft.) : nonanamorphic wide-screen, sd. (opt, Dolby SR, digital, Dolby SR-D, SDDS, DTS), col. ; 35 mm.
Language
English
Description
"A woman who once made it her goal in life to marry and rear a family finds her priorities suddenly shifting in Ryan Murphy and Jennifer Salt's adaptation of author Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir. In the eyes of many, Liz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) was a woman who had it all, a loving husband, a great career, and a weekend home, but sometimes one realizes too little too late that they haven't gotten what they truly wanted from life. On the heels...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation. It's one outrageous predicament after another.
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
6) Gran Torino
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Fullscreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Walt is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor, Thao, a young Hmong teenager, becomes pressured by his gang member cousin to steal Walt's Gran...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
Rental ed.
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (ca. 128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
8) Wild
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Wildscreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After years of reckless behavior, a heroin addiction and the destruction of her marriage, Cheryl Strayed makes a rash decision. Haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi and with absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail all on her own.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
[DVD version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of four Navy SEALs sent on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative. They are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Based on The New York Times bestseller.
10) Red tails
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky, even as they battle discrimination on the ground. Featuring jaw-dropping aerial action and thrilling special effects, Red Tails is a breathtaking tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary challenges and ultimately soared into history.
11) Hotel for dogs
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
[Widescreen ed.]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Foster children Andi and Bruce have been placed with a flaky couple who care more for their aspiring rock careers than their charges. Their mischievous tendencies repeatedly get them into trouble. After a close call with the local pound, the kids end up searching for Friday, their secretly adopted dog, in an abandoned old hotel where they find several other stray dogs seeking shelter. They, along with three other local kids, begin caring for the strays....